Carceral Worlds

Name: Carceral Worlds
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SKU: 9781350298101
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We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread. Carceral Worlds offers a necessary and timely contribution to understanding these carceral realities of the globalized present. The book asks how the carceral has become so central... Read More

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A timely interdisciplinary reflection on the practices, performances, imaginaries, and experiences of confinement and carcerality in our globalized present – featuring global case studies.

A timely interdisciplinary reflection on the practices, performances, imaginaries, and experiences of confinement and carcerality in our globalized present – featuring global case studies.

Description

We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread. Carceral Worlds offers a necessary and timely contribution to understanding these carceral realities of the globalized present. The book asks how the carceral has become so central in life, how it manifests in different geographical locations and, finally, what the likely consequences are of living in such a carceral world.

Carceral Worlds focuses on carceral practices, experiences and imaginaries that reach far beyond traditional spaces of confinement. It shows the lasting effects of colonial carceral heritage, the influence of prison systems on city management, and the entrapping nature of digital infrastructures. It also discusses new urbanized forms of migrant detention, the relation between prisons and homelessness, the use of carceral metaphors in the everyday, and the carceral implications of the uneven distribution of climate risk across the globe.

The volume brings together work from scholars across the world and from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, offering a fresh approach to the carceral as a central vector in modern life.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350298101

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 March 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Contributors:

Edited by Jennifer Turner
Edited by Hanneke Stuit
Edited by Julienne Weegels

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 288

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Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature

About the Author

Hanneke Stuit is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is author of Ubuntu Strategies: Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture (2016) and co-editor of Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present: Spaces, Mobilities, Aesthetics (2016).

Jennifer Turner is the leader of the Crime and Carcerality Research Group at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. She is author of The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space (2016) and co-editor of Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (2017) and The Prison Cell: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration (2020).

Julienne Weegels is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is co-organizer of the Global Prisons Research Network and convenor of the Anthropology of Confinement network.